To make the World Wide Web machine-understandable there is a strong demand both for languages describing metadata and for languages querying metadata. The Resource Description Fram...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Richard Vdovj...
The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project, supported by the NSF Middleware Initiative, aims at making scientific instruments and sensors remotely accessible by ...
Hao Yin, Donald F. McMullen, Mehmet A. Nacar, Marl...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
Abstract. To realise an Ambient Intelligence environment, it is paramount that applications can dispose of information about the context in which they operate, preferably in a very...
Davy Preuveneers, Jan Van den Bergh, Dennis Wagela...
—Clusters of identical intermediate servers are often created to improve availability and robustness in many domains. The use of proxy servers for the World Wide Web (WWW) and of...